How to Use leave off in a Sentence
leave off
verb-
Meanwhile, rinse the greens and pull the leaves off the stems.
— Melissa Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2024 -
To the dismay of many, the Callery pear tree was left off of this list.
— London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2020 -
Dear Heloise: Need to leave off your paint job for a while?
— Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020 -
Trim the leaves off the top of the fruit, remove the stem, and slice the persimmon in half.
— Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2023 -
But in 2016, she was left off the Olympic roster for Rio.
— Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 23 June 2024 -
Wuest sweeps some leaves off one of the markers, which shows a date of death of 1897.
— Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Apr. 2023 -
There’s some things—there were four or five big things left off.
— Alex Leary, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018 -
For one, the season picks up a full year after the last one left off.
— Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2019 -
Kim said the restaurant will pick up where Café Dear Leon leaves off.
— Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2024 -
Though not a film, this work is too essential to leave off the list.
— Joshua First, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022 -
This year, the hard part was debating which ones to leave off.
— Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 28 Dec. 2020 -
And the car app will pick up where a listener left off on their phone.
— Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2023 -
Fry’s two-run shot to left off Heasley in the fourth was his fourth home run, giving him 13 RBI.
— Joe Noga, cleveland, 26 July 2023 -
The latest series picks up where 2021’s What a Mess doc left off, kind of.
— Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024 -
Here’s a recap of where all of the characters left off....
— Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023 -
More than picking up where Stark left off, Spidey's job now is just to show the Avengers are in good hands.
— Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 2 July 2019 -
How did My Life with the Walter Boys season 1 leave off?
— Adam England, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024 -
The new series launched on Sept. 18 this year and picks up two years after the finale left off.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023 -
Young-White claimed his name was left off Adeya's birth certificate due to the child's home birth.
— Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024 -
Was our pick in first start and cashed nicely; can’t leave off today.
— Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 11 Dec. 2020 -
But since then, many others have picked up where Paul left off, to make sure Jesse didn’t die in vain.
— AZCentral.com, 26 June 2023 -
Eight years ago, Kohler almost gave up the sport after being left off the 2016 team that went to Brazil.
— Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024 -
Netflix Plot Season two left off with the birth of Prince Edward in 1964.
— Ruby Buddemeyer, Marie Claire, 27 July 2018 -
Dune: Part Two, picking up where 2021’s Dune left off, buffs out the white-savior sheen of that telling of the story.
— Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024 -
Before you watch Killing Eve season two, here's a quick recap of where the first run left off.
— Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2019 -
He got left off some big important Ohio elite team in high school.
— Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 20 Apr. 2020 -
Narvaez then hit a towering home run down the line in left off Wei-Chung Wang.
— Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019 -
Clears, sheers, and pinks will give you a simple, elegant look that picks up where the glazed donut left off.
— Elle Turner, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2024 -
These items can safely be left off your to-do list without any risk to performance or outcomes.
— Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 -
The only problem is that the break between seasons was so long that the friends can't actually remember where the plot left off.
— Shania Russell, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
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